Palos verdes peninsula news

By Donna Littlejohn | [email protected] | Daily BreezePUBLISHED: January 29, 2019 at 8:51 am | UPDATED: January 29, 2019 at 8:51 am For more than half a century, Admiral Risty has been the go-to restaurant for life’s special celebrations in and around the Palos Verdes Peninsula. From romantic dates to anniversaries and birthdays, the upscale steak-and-seafood restaurant has, for 52 years, topped many families’ lists for a fancy night out. An added attraction: The restaurant provided a front-row ocean view from the hills of Rancho Palos Verdes — an extra treat during whale-migration season. So word this week that the restaurant will close on Aug. 17 due to a lease dispute rippled quickly across social media sites. “Oh no!” Greg Tschida posted on Facebook. “A Palos Verdes icon.” Gonzalo Medina posted this: “Some of the best meals in my life were eaten there, ranging from first dates to birthdays anniversaries. “Man,” Medina … [Read more...] about Iconic Admiral Risty in Rancho Palos Verdes will close after 52 years

Donald Trump speaks at a news conference at Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes to announce a conservation easement grant to the Peninsula Land Conservancy to protect 11.5 acres as open space for scenic enjoyment and public use. The land is now in the area of the driving range along Palos Verdes Drive South. Jan. 15, 2014. (Brad Graverson / Staff Photographer) Donald Trump speaks at a news conference at Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes. (Brad Graverson / Staff Photographer) Sound The gallery will resume inseconds Show Caption of Expand By Megan Barnes | [email protected] | Long Beach Press-Telegram PUBLISHED: January 15, 2015 at 4:53 pm | UPDATED: September 6, 2017 at 6:05 am Appearing before a crowd of community leaders Thursday in the clubhouse of his seaside luxury golf course in Rancho Palos Verdes, real estate mogul Donald Trump had news to share about a recently closed deal. Instead of building 16 homes planned for the golf … [Read more...] about Donald Trump turns over 11.5-acre easement in Rancho Palos Verdes for open space

Signs, like this one on the fishing pier in San Pedro, warn of eating certain types of fish due to contanalysismination along the Palos Verdes coastline. Scientists are at a loss to explain the fact that more than 100 metric tons of the banned pesticide DDT and industrial compounds known as PCBs have vanished from one of the country’s most hazardous sites, off the Palos Verdes Peninsula, decades after industrial waste dumping turned the 17-square-mile area into a toxic hot spot. (Steve McCrank/Staff Photographer) Looking north-west from White Point in San Pedro towards Long Pt. in Rancho Palos Verdes, near where underwater pipes enter the ocean and carry sewage deep off shore, where DDT and PCBs poisoned the coastline. (Steve McCrank/Staff Photographer) Sound The gallery will resume inseconds Looking south-east along to Palos Verdes peninsula coastline, with Portuguese Point on the right and Pt. Fermin in San Pedro in far left. It is along this coastline that had … [Read more...] about Scientists hope new tests will reveal what happened to contaminants off Palos Verdes Peninsula

By Rob Kuznia | [email protected] | PUBLISHED: October 29, 2013 at 12:00 am | UPDATED: September 6, 2017 at 6:47 am A high-level administrator in the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District has resigned amid outcry from a band of parents and board critics whose many charges against him include that he exercised poor judgment by posting sexually explicit photos of himself on a porn website. The group alleges that Martin Griffin, who as chief academic officer was the district’s third-highest-ranking administrator, posted photos and videos of himself on a porn website called Xtube. Once a friar with the Roman Catholic Church, Griffin now serves as a bishop in the San Diego-based American Catholic Church Diocese of California. His critics allege that to perform that other job, Griffin generally did not work at Palos Verdes Unified on Fridays. (District officials declined to confirm or deny that assertion.) In addition to the allegations about the porn site and his … [Read more...] about Palos Verdes school administrator resigns under intense parent scrutiny

By Sam Gnerre | [email protected] | Daily BreezePUBLISHED: August 13, 2018 at 6:00 am | UPDATED: August 13, 2018 at 6:00 am Chadwick School, the first high school on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, was founded by a woman whose life reads like a movie script. Margaret Chadwick was born Margaret Lee on April 26, 1893, in Spanish Fork, Utah. Her father, a Presbyterian minister, had been posted there as a missionary charged with attempting to convert Mormons. Lee was one of eight children, and she was determined to get a college education. She enrolled at Wooster College in Ohio in 1910, then transferred to Stanford University. Upon graduation from Stanford, she set about to become a teacher. Opportunities for women with college degrees weren’t easy to find at the time, but she landed a teaching job in the hopefully named town of Metropolis, Nevada, a new city built by an Eastern land speculator. She spent a year there teaching and coaching the school’s basketball teams. The city … [Read more...] about South Bay History: ‘Aunt Maggie’ created an education powerhouse on the Peninsula